You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to.
We must be sure to act with deliberation, boldness, and persistence. Those are the attributes of right and effective action.
A poet’s function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don’t like? Love. That’s right, love.
A true student is like a sponge. Absorbing what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. A student is self-critical and self-motivated, always trying to improve his understan...
Men, the philosopher’s lecture-hall is a hospital—you shouldn’t walk out of it feeling pleasure, but pain, for you aren’t well when you enter it. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.30
The prize and spoils no longer go to the person who makes it to market first. They go to the person who makes it to Product Market Fit first.
Marcus reminded himself: Don’t await the perfection of Plato’s Republic. He wasn’t expecting the world to be exactly the way he wanted it to be, but Marcus knew instinctively, as the Catholic philosop...
Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time. S
Many of the Stoic aphorisms are simple to remember and even sound smart when quoted. But that’s not what philosophy is really about. The goal is to turn these words into works. As Musonius Rufus put i...
It not only has to be worth spreading, it has to provoke a desire in people to spread it. Until you have accomplished that, or until your client is doing something truly remarkable, it just isn’t goin...
Precisely what makes us so promising as thinkers, doers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, what drives us to the top of those fields, makes us vulnerable to this darker side of the psyche. Now
You can pay for influence the way you can pay for sex, but from what I understand neither is quite the same as when you get it the old-fashioned way. Just as earned media is always better than paid me...
That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, Montaigne
We spend a lot of time thinking about how things are supposed to be, or what the rules say we should do. Trying to get it all perfect. We tell ourselves that we’ll get started once the conditions are...
Yes, there are legitimate stresses and anguish that come with the responsibilities of your new life. All the things you’re managing, the frustrating mistakes of people who should know better, the endl...
That is, when you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
Talkativeness is afraid of the silence which reveals its emptiness, Kierkegaard once said. Now you know why sharing, commenting, clicking, and participating are pushed so strongly by blogs and enterta...
Only the rational and disciplined mind could hope to profit from
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